Hartley Bay, the home of the Gitga’at First Nations, is situated 145km, 90 miles,
from Prince Rupert in BC Canada.
Our guide Chris from Hartley Bay had seen a pack of sea wolves and we took the
opportunity to observe these wolves.
We set up and waited. Soon shadows appeared in the dark overhang of the
forest. A small pack of wolves could be seen moving at the edge of the forest. A
single wolf made a cautious exit from the forest to an open patch of land. A
second wolf followed, a female. A third wolf appeared and after some interaction
the female marked her territory and after circling a spot, she sat and then lay on
the ground. The Alpha male went hunting for salmon. On a number of occasions a
wolf would howl and another wolves would reply filling the air with a mysterious
language that reverberated through the mountains and valleys.
The wolf returned with food and after eating howled, within minutes the
haunting sounds of wolf packs reverberated around the mountains.
At the end of the day the wolves returned to the shadows of the Great Bear Rain
Forrest.